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Sirte (Libya) (AFP) – Forces loyal to Libya’s unity government launched a new attack Saturday on diehards of the Islamic State jihadist group pinned down in the coastal city of Sirte. Backed by weeks of US air strikes, fighters loyal to the Government of National […]

Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil said on Saturday that the FPM wants to “destroy” what he called the “corrupt structure” that ruled Lebanon between 1990 and 2005. Addressing Prime Minister Tammam Salam, Bassil noted that “the son of late PM Saeb Salam must pay […]

NNA – Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea categorically stressed that the primary practical step to exit out of the current crisis lies in the election of the president of the republic. “The foremost needed step to extricate out of the current crisis does neither […]

NNA – A drug smuggling operation from India to Lebanon was foiled in Rafic Hariri International Airport and big amounts of “Tramadol” pills were confiscated, a communiqué issued by Interior Security Forces (ISF) – General Directorate – Public Relations department said on Saturday. The communiqué […]

NNA – Following investigations into the incident of the Palestinian boy Khaled Walid al-Shabti, who succeeded to slip on Wednesday through multiple security checkpoints at Beirut’s International Airport and flew to Turkey in business class alone and undetected until just before landing, the Lebanese Government […]

Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Beshara Boutros Rai visited the town of al-Qaa on Thursday where he headed a mass held as a tribute to the martyrs and wounded who were the victims of a recent massive wave of suicide bombings that targeted the village last month. […]

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has pulled into an effective tie with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, erasing a substantial deficit as he consolidated support among his party’s likely voters in recent weeks, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos national tracking poll released Friday. The poll showed […]

Fighting in Syria doesn’t remove the threat of Hezbollah to Israel, the Zionist newspaper Haaretz titled its article published by Amos Harel on Friday. Haaretz considered that the prolonged quiet on the Palestinian-Lebanese border cannot rule out the possibility that Hezbollah will abandon his restraint […]

Yemeni forces have fired several rockets and a ballistic missile at military positions in southwestern Saudi Arabia in response to the kingdom’s relentless airstrikes. The forces on Wednesday fired a barrage of Katyusha rockets at a Saudi military position in the southwestern province of Najran, […]